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Semantic ID-based generative recommendation represents items as sequences of discrete tokens, but it inherently faces a trade-off between representational expressiveness and computational efficiency. Residual Quantization (RQ)-based…

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Leveraging the vast open-world knowledge and understanding capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop general-purpose, semantically-aware recommender systems has emerged as a pivotal research direction in generative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhiyang Zhang , Junda She , Kuo Cai , Bo Chen , Shiyao Wang , Xinchen Luo , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Generative recommendation maps each item to a sequence of Semantic IDs (SIDs) and recasts retrieval as autoregressive token generation. In this paradigm the main bottleneck is the tokenizer rather than the Transformer: residual vector…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Wenzhuo Cheng , Menghang Gong , Qixin Guo , Hang Zheng , Zhaobin Yang , Jianguo Lou , Zhengwei Zheng

With the rise of generative paradigms, generative recommendation has garnered increasing attention. The core component is the item code, generally derived by quantizing collaborative or semantic representations to serve as candidate items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Longtao Xiao , Haozhao Wang , Cheng Wang , Linfei Ji , Yifan Wang , Jieming Zhu , Zhenhua Dong , Rui Zhang , Ruixuan Li

Generative recommendation is an emerging paradigm that leverages the extensive knowledge of large language models by formulating recommendations into a text-to-text generation task. However, existing studies face two key limitations in (i)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sunkyung Lee , Minjin Choi , Eunseong Choi , Hye-young Kim , Jongwuk Lee

Generative Recommendation (GR) reframes retrieval and ranking as autoregressive decoding over Semantic IDs (SIDs), unifying the multi-stage pipeline into a single model. Yet a fundamental expressive gap persists: discriminative models score…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ziliang Wang , Gaoyun Lin , Xuesi Wang , Shaoqiang Liang , Yili Huang , Weijie Bian , Li Zhang , Mingchen Cai , Jian Dong , Guanxing Zhang

Generative models powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as a unified solution for powering both recommendation and search tasks. A key design choice in these models is how to represent items, traditionally through unique…

Generative recommendation (GR) models tokenize each action into a few discrete tokens (called semantic IDs) and autoregressively generate the next tokens as predictions, showing advantages such as memory efficiency, scalability, and the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Qiyong Zhong , Jiajie Su , Yunshan Ma , Julian McAuley , Yupeng Hou

Generative recommendation models often struggle with two key challenges: (1) the superficial integration of collaborative signals, and (2) the decoupled fusion of multimodal features. These limitations hinder the creation of a truly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yuzhen Lin , Hongyi Chen , Xuanjing Chen , Shaowen Wang , Ivonne Xu , Dongming Jiang

Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings. To avoid the significant memory overhead of…

Item-based collaborative filtering (ICF) has been widely used in industrial applications such as recommender system and online advertising. It models users' preference on target items by the items they have interacted with. Recent models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yinjiang Cai , Zeyu Cui , Shu Wu , Zhen Lei , Xibo Ma

With the rapid development of recommender systems, there is increasing side information that can be employed to improve the recommendation performance. Specially, we focus on the utilization of the associated \emph{textual data} of items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Lanling Xu , Zhen Tian , Bingqian Li , Junjie Zhang , Jinpeng Wang , Mingchen Cai , Wayne Xin Zhao

Multimodal recommendation aims to recommend user-preferred candidates based on her/his historically interacted items and associated multimodal information. Previous studies commonly employ an embed-and-retrieve paradigm: learning user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Han Liu , Yinwei Wei , Xuemeng Song , Weili Guan , Yuan-Fang Li , Liqiang Nie

Generative recommendation (GR) is an emerging paradigm that tokenizes items into discrete tokens and learns to autoregressively generate the next tokens as predictions. While this token-generation paradigm is expected to surpass traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yijie Ding , Jiacheng Li , Julian McAuley , Yupeng Hou

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shifted in recommendation systems from the discriminative paradigm to the LLM-based generative paradigm, where the recommender autoregressively generates sequences of semantic identifiers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiawei Feng , Xiaoyu Kong , Leheng Sheng , Bin Wu , Chao Yi , Feifang Yang , Xiang-Rong Sheng , Han Zhu , Xiang Wang , Jiancan Wu , Xiangnan He

A core objective in recommender systems is to accurately model the distribution of user preferences over items to enable personalized recommendations. Recently, driven by the strong generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuanbo Zhao , Ruochen Liu , Senzhang Wang , Jun Yin , Yuxin Dong , Huan Gong , Hao Chen , Shirui Pan , Chengqi Zhang

Leveraging long-term user behavioral patterns is a key trajectory for enhancing the accuracy of modern recommender systems. While generative recommender systems have emerged as a transformative paradigm, they face hurdles in effectively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Shiteng Cao , Junda She , Ji Liu , Bin Zeng , Chengcheng Guo , Kuo Cai , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Zhiheng Li , Cheng Yang

Generative Recommendation (GR) has gained traction for its merits of superior performance and cold-start capability. As the vital role in GR, Semantic Identifiers (SIDs) represent item semantics through discrete tokens. However, current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Qiang Wan , Ze Yang , Dawei Yang , Ying Fan , Xin Yan , Siyang Liu , Yicong Liu , Chenwei Zhang , Wei Xu , Jiahao Qin , Ke Wang

Generative recommendation provides a novel paradigm in which each item is represented by a discrete semantic ID (SID) learned from rich content. Most existing methods treat SIDs as predefined and train recommenders under static indexing. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Junchen Fu , Xuri Ge , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Suzan Verberne , Joemon M. Jose , Zhaochun Ren

Generative recommendation (GR) has become a powerful paradigm in recommendation systems that implicitly links modality and semantics to item representation, in contrast to previous methods that relied on non-semantic item identifiers in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jing Zhu , Mingxuan Ju , Yozen Liu , Danai Koutra , Neil Shah , Tong Zhao